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Part One The Daughter of a Silk Merchant of Marseilles Marseilles, at the beginning of Germinal, Year II (The end of March, 1794, by Mama''s old-fashioned reckoning) 3 Twenty-four hours later 10 Marseilles, at the beginning of Prairial (The lovely month of May, says Mama, is almost over) 28 Marseilles, middle of Thermidor (Beginning of August, Mama says) 46 Marseilles, end of Fructidor (Middle of September) 58 Paris, twelve months later-Fructidor, Year III 68 Paris, twenty-four hours-no, an eternity-later 76 Marseilles, three weeks later 89 Rome, three days after Christmas in the Year V (Here in Italy they still use the pre-Revolutionary calendar: December 27, 1797) 92 Paris, end of Germinal, Year VI (Except in our Republic, where everyone calls it April, 1798) 105 Paris, four weeks later 117 Part Two Marshal Bernadotte''s Lady Sceaux, near Paris, autumn of Year VI (1798) 129 Sceaux, near Paris, New Year''s Eve (The last year of the eighteenth century begins) 142 Sceaux, near Paris, 17 Messidor, Year VII (To Mama, probably July 4, 1799) 151 Sceaux, near Paris, a week later 152 Paris, 18 Brumaire of the Year VII (In other countries: November 9, 1799 Our Republic has a new Constitution) 164 Paris, March 21, 1804 (Only the Magistrates stick to the Republican calendar, and write today: 1 Germinal of the Year XII) 178 Paris, May 20, 1804 (1 Prairial of the Year XII) 197 Paris, 9 Frimaire of the Year XII (By the Church calendar: November 30, 1804) 207 Paris, at night after Napoleon''s coronation December 2, 1804 217 Paris, two weeks after the Emperor''s coronation 233 In a stagecoach between Hanover in Germany and Paris, September, 1805 (The Emperor has forbidden our Republican calendar My late mama would be pleased-she never could get used to it) 244 Paris, June 4, 1806 256 Summer, 1807, in a travelling coach somewhere in Europe 261 In our new home in the rue d''Anjou in Paris July, 1809 275 Villa la Grange, near Paris Autumn, 1809 284 Paris, December 16, 1809 292 Paris, end of June, 1810 303 Part Three Our Lady of Peace <